CfC: SPECIAL ISSUE ON GAMBLING POLICIES AND PRACTICES

Gambling activity has reached unprecedented levels worldwide and the effects of gambling have come under intense public, political, and academic scrutiny. Problem gambling has emerged as a significant public health issue and there is a great need for a more thorough coherent scholarly discussion regarding ways in which gambling activities can and potentially should be controlled and governed in contemporary societies.

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Alice Rap A-Debate available online

ALICE RAP hosted an on-site and on-line final debate to present and discuss key research findings coming out of the project, their policy implications and the science with the greatest potential to contribute to smart and evidence-based global drugs policy.
The event participants were high-level scientists, policy actors from national and international organisations and expert civil society actors.
The online A-Debate was streamed live, and the session about the Area, which University of Helsinki has led, can be seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGLcPGJ3JEw

A-Debate: U-Turn on Addictions 17th-18th of February, 2016

Barcelona and online, 17th-18th February 2016
ALICE RAP will host an on-site and on-line final debate to present and discuss key research findings coming out of the project, their policy implications and the science with the greatest potential to contribute to smart and evidence-based global drugs policy. The event participants will be high-level scientists, policy actors from national and international organisations and expert civil society actors, and the debate is expected to shape the messages from multidisciplinary addiction science for drug policy influencers and implementers. The online A-Debate will be streamed live here and can be viewed by anyone, without registration. Registration will only be required to receive the draft A-Debate Science Summary Document and to participate actively online (by sending comments and questions to the discussions).
For more information, please see:
http://www.alicerap.eu/events/a-debate.html

Forthcoming book: Concepts of Addiction

Matilda Hellman is one of the editors and Michael Egerer and Riikka Perälä contributors in the forthcoming release Concepts of Addictive Substances and Behaviours across Time and Place by Oxford University Press.

Concepts of Addictive Substances and Behaviours across Time and Place is based on research from ALICE RAP (Addiction and Lifestyles in Contemporary Europe, Reframing Addictions Project), a multidisciplinary European study of addictive substances, and behaviours in contemporary society.

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New publications by CEACG researchers

Reserchers of CEACG have authored two papers in the latest English Issue of the Finnish journal Sosiologia (4/2015). Matilda Hellman and Anu Katainen examine the relationship between the citizen and the state using the Finnish “Whiskygate” Alcohol Policy Debate of 2014 as their case. Michael Egerer and Anna Alanko study problem gambling from the perspective of the Finnish non-medical model of addiction.

Riikka Perälä‘s case study on emancipation and participation in drug treatment was published in the Special Issue on Civil Society of Foucalt Studies (Dec 2015).

Mikeshin: Substance Abuse in Russia

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On November 24, Igor Mikeshin, a sociocultural anthropologist and a PhD candidate at the University of Helsinki, gave a presentation at the CEACG seminar. The presentation was titled “Cheap Dope, 2-2-8, and Jesus: Anthropology of Substance Abuse in Russia” and it covered the anthropology of substance abuse, substance use dependence in the present-day Russia as a field of social research, and Mikeshin’s current and future research.

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Seminar on Volunteer Work and Citizen Activity

CEACG and Finnish Society for Alcohol and Drug Research (AHTS) will organize a seminar Making Volunteers in Finland: Public policy and social and health care services in the age of active citizenship on Thursday 22 October. Speakers include Thomas Babor, Pekka Sulkunen, Elina Virokannas, Matilda Hellman, Anna Leppo, and Riikka Perälä. Full programme available here.

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New CEACG dissertation: “Gambling is based on social contexts”

Virve Marionneau, M.Soc.Sci, will defend her doctoral dissertation entitled “Socio-cultural contexts of gambling – A comparative study of Finland and France” on Saturday, 19th of September. Marionneau, who lives in Paris, has prepared her thesis as part of the CEACG-group as well of the Academy-funded IMAGES project (2007-2011).

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Nikolas Rose visited the CEACG

“What kinds of creatures do we think we are, we contemporary human beings” How have we come to understand ourselves in these ways”

These are two core questions that Nikolas Rose poses in his many texts about governance and humanities in the age of biology and neuroscience. Rose visited the CEACG’s group’s Thursday meeting the 23rd of April, talking about two recent papers with great significance for the research group’s work on addiction, control and governance.

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